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Composer:
John Foulds

Artist(s):
Susan Bickley
Daniel Hope

Conductor:
Sakari Oramo

Background: John Foulds has been described as a 'quintessential eccentric' and as 'England's answer to Charles Ives'. When he started composing, Foulds was a fairly typical English late-Romantic but, as he went on, he experimented with Greek modes, extreme chromaticism, bitonality, quarter-tone scales and exoticism.

Unfortunately, few of his scores have survived so Foulds is little known today and it is difficult to assess his musical contribution. Sakari Oramo and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra have championed the work of John Foulds, giving first performances of Mirage ('a Straussian evocation of man's metaphysical aspirations') and Lyra Celtica.

John Foulds took piano lessons from the age of four and began composing three years later. At ten, he began to study the cello and he left home at 13 to play in local orchestras and bands before joining the cello section of the Hallé Orchestra in 1900. Traveling extensively as a young man, Foulds met a number of European composers, including Bartók, Mahler, Delius, Richard Strauss and Busoni, whose work influenced his own. In 1906, shortly after Henry Wood premiered Foulds's orchestral piece, Epithalamium, at a London Promenade Concert, Foulds parted company with the Hallé to concentrate on composing.

Together with his second wife, the violinist and theosophist Maud McCarthy, Foulds moved to Paris in 1927. After a brief return to London in 1930, he moved to India in 1935, where he studied Indian folk music and formed an experimental Indo-European orchestra that combined Western and native instruments. He was working on a Symphony of East and West when he died of cholera in Calcutta in 1939.

CATALOGUE NR: 2564615252
RECORD LABEL: Warner Classics
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 25-Oct-2004

COMPOSER: John Foulds
TRACKS: Three Mantras from Avatara op.61b. Lyra Celtica op.50. Apotheosis op.18. Mirage op.21.
ORCHESTRA: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Sakari Oramo
ARTISTS: Susan Bickley   Daniel Hope    

- Dec-2004 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Awards-2004 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'A fascinating portrait of a colourful, restless personality'

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